Dan Stanley

A London-based illustrator and designer. He set up Fluffy Thoughts at the beginning of the year. His designs are inspired by daydreams and mix together childlike innocence and subtle humour. While he also believe that there are fantastical worlds wintin everyone and my characters are giving you a peek into my world.

How to keep your creativity works?
My creativity comes in bursts, sometimes it is not there at all, and I will be trying to draw but nothing comes, other times I will be sitting on the train and have an idea that I need to draw. Lots of my ideas have been drawn whilst sitting on the train.

Favorite media?
I use pencil, pens, ink, watercolour, photoshop and illustrator.

How to reach you?
You can reach me through my website www.fluffythoughts.net or email dan@fluffythoughts.net - I am also on twitter and have a fan page on facebook

Your future plan
I have started selling my work at craft fairs, so I hopefully will be doing more of these. I am working on more posters and starting to do paintings. One day I would love to have a shop selling illustrated products of every kind.

interview with Meri

I found her website through blog-walking, and i do like her style, and her blog also giving a good impression that make me want to find out a little bit more about her and her works, so i sent out a few questions for her to answer.

1. How to keep your creativity works?
Make drawing fun. There’s a lot of joy in simply drawing things. Often I compare myself to other artist and obviously I become intimidated, and then drawing becomes a struggle to reach someone else’s level. But while knowing your weaknesses and working hard is good, obviously, taking it too serious takes the joy away.There is a lot of exercise, like blind drawing, to connect again to the feeling of joy. I keep forgetting that though.Also, surrounding oneself with objects of exhilarating cuteness and prettiness is a good way to keep your fingers working happy!

2. Favorite media?
Copic markers, ballpoint pens, ink, pencils, photoshop.

3. you have some drawing that showing a lil girl nipple, do you have a background stories about it?
Those are not really little girls, more like ghosts of a woman’s past. Where the sexuality already was there but under a blanket of confusion. The naked “little girls” are something I don’t really consciously put int the drawings, they just show up. Maybe, deep down, I’m convinced that there is this little kid in all girls, both innocent and spooky,yet scared at the same time. Something we must take care of, and also keep it secret. Little girls are beautiful and when you grow up you see their charm, but also you cannot ever again enter into that world, so the adults are very often embarassed and shy around growing up girls. There’s a mystery to them that we lose acess too. But they are in us, adult girls, creeped out and creeping us out.

3. How to reach you?
veryevilmeri@gmail.com ! you can try taking ibogaine, too. once i showed up in an ibogaine trance of my friend along with 2pac. you never know.

4. Your future plan
Draw draw draw, be more humble and patient and happy, drink loads of water, maybe get somewhere with my art.